[link] I've invoked the name of 'science fiction's premier gadfly' before in the abstract, 'Shards Of Space'. This time the reference is to a pair of clownish space entrepreneurs who get into unlikely scrapes with their AAA Ace Planetary Decontamination Company. They were a bit like an SF prototype of 'The Goodies' whose slogan was, "We do anything, anywhere, any time." They are just the sort of people who could have been flogged a second hand star gate and would be bound to have had hilarious adventures trying to make it work and then turn a profit from it.